Density Estimation With Confidence Sets Exemplified by Superclusters and Voids in the Galaxies

cross-validation spacings galaxies density estimation voids goodness-of-fit test histograms vertex exchange method superclusters finite normal mixtures Corona Borealis region semiparametric densities velocity density

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Nonparametric estimation (62G05) Applications of statistics (62P99) Statistical astronomy (85A35)

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